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Mark Lyons helps No. 9 Arizona edge Utah 68-64
LYNN DeBRUIN
Feb. 18, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arizona coach Sean Miller shuffled his lineup hoping his team would rebound from its worst loss of the season.
It worked, although Sunday's 68-64 victory over Utah was hardly easy for the ninth-ranked Wildcats, who blew a 13-point second-half lead but finished strong to avoid a third straight defeat.
"I don't think we played any different (down the stretch)," said freshman Brandon Ashley, who was benched in favor of senior Kevin Parrom. "I just think we picked up our intensity. We saw that we needed to stop messing around and fight."
Mark Lyons scored 18 points, Ashley added 10 in a reserve role and Solomon Hill had 10 points and eight rebounds for the Wildcats.
Ashley insisted the benching didn't bother him.
"If I come off the bench and I only play 5 minutes a game, I'm still going to come in and show my best and impact the game in whatever ways I can — whether it's scoring, rebounding or just playing defense," he said.
Ashley's steal and fast-break layup put Arizona up 48-37 with 11:52 left.
Utah, with three freshmen on the floor, responded with a 14-3 run, capped by Jason Washburn's tip-in to tie it at 51 with 7:28 remaining.
A 3-pointer by Dakarai Tucker pulled Utah within two with 4:46 left, but a putback by Parrom and a layup by Lyons helped seal it for the Wildcats (21-4, 9-4 Pac-12).
Jarred DuBois had 16 points, Washburn 15 and Jeremy Olsen 12 for the Utes (11-14, 3-10), who have yet to win back-to-back conference games since joining the Pac-12 two years ago.
"Dakarai Tucker was a big lift, getting a couple of 3s," Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said of the freshman guard, who had six points in 12 minutes. "At the end of games, that's how you win. He gave us some momentum. . It came down to a couple of plays here and there."
Arizona's seniors provided them.
Miller insisted he didn't bench Ashley because he was disappointed in him. The coach just wanted to get Parrom, who scored six points in the final 4 minutes, in the starting lineup.
"We're at the end of the road here," Miller said. "He's a senior and we're going to ride the guys who have the most to gain and the most to lose. Lyons, Hill and Parrom — they're the guys to me who can start the game the best way and start the second half the best way."
There's no question the Wildcats got off to a better start, though Ashley was one player who helped make a difference in the first half by going 2 of 2 from the field with two free throws and two steals while Parrom was scoreless.
"Brandon was our best freshman today," Miller said. "He was our best frontcourt player today. ... Brandon answered the bell."
Arizona opened the second half with an 8-3 run, and a twisting layup by Lyons gave the Wildcats a 41-28 advantage with 17:43 left.
Utah fought back.
DuBois and Tucker hit 3-pointers and Olsen had two more baskets in the paint during Utah's big run.
After Washburn tied it, Hill scored on a tough layup and Lyons converted a three-point play as Arizona went up 56-51.
Utah pulled to 60-57 on two free throws by DuBois with 3:15 remaining. But freshman Jordan Loveridge, who spent much of the game in foul trouble and shot 1 of 9 from the field, turned it over and Parrom scored on a nice feed from Lyons for a five-point edge with 1:48 left.
DuBois made one of two free throws and Lyons scored on a drive with 1:10 left for a 64-58 edge.
Washburn hit a 3 at the buzzer to make the final margin closer.
"He's at his best when the chips are down," Miller said of Lyons, who scored nine of Arizona's last 15 points.
"That's who he is. That's one of the reasons we as a team really love him. When it's close and it's tight, he has the ability and the confidence to make big plays."
There's no question there was a big emphasis on containing Washburn, the Utah center who was coming off a 26-point game in a win over Arizona State. He had 17 points and 11 rebounds in the first meeting with the Wildcats, so Arizona threw double teams at Washburn and forced Utah to knock down outside shots.
"He's been playing pretty well, so we wanted to make sure we stopped him," Ashley said. "We also wanted to make sure we stopped the other bigs as well."
Despite the win and losses last week by other top 10 teams, Arizona is expected to fall when the new rankings are released Monday.
With five games remaining, the Wildcats are tied with UCLA for second place in the conference standings, a game behind No. 23 Oregon.
Miller knows Arizona can't keep living on the edge.
"We keep putting ourselves in the same position, which is a one-possession game down to the end," he said. "For our team, it's a matter of where we go from here. . We are happy with the win but we have to get better as we move forward if we want to accomplish something special in March."
Arizona led by as many as 12 points in the first half as the Wildcats hit five 3-pointers and limited Utah to 37 percent shooting.
Arizona went cold from 3-point range in the second half, making just 1 of 10.
Lyons was 1 for 9 from beyond the arc but 5 of 6 on free throws and added five assists and two steals.
Utah shot just 39.6 percent and finished 7 of 16 from 3-point range after going 2 of 8 in the first half.
"I thought in the first half our defense was as good as we have played this year," Miller said. "The second half was much different."
Hill opened 3 of 3, including a pair of 3-pointers, to give Arizona a 21-14 lead with 8:44 left in the half.
Former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan took in the game from the lower bowl at the Huntsman Center.


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The following is a sampling of calls received by the Town of Niagara Police between March 12 and 18.
Tuesday, March 12
•8500 block of Porter Road, fire. Smell of smoke was reported by employees in an apartment being serviced. Patrols arriving observed flames coming from southwest corner of the eight-unit apartment complex. Initial damage was estimated at $250,000 to the structure. Niagara Active Hose Volunteer Fire Co. responded as primary with the following fire departments responding for assistance: Frontier, Upper Mountain, Lewiston No. 1, Lewiston No. 2, Youngstown, Cambria, Pekin, Grand Island, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, Sanborn and St. Johnsburg, as well as Rural Metro Ambulance. Cause of fire was to be determined.
•1900 block of Military Road, false alarm. Burned pizza at mall business.
•2900 block of Military Road, larceny. Complainant said she left her wallet on the counter at a business and someone took it. Video showed a female taking the wallet. Patrol located the female, and the money and wallet were returned.
Wednesday, March 13
•8500 block of Porter Road, drugs. Patrol secured glass jars containing suspected marijuana to be destroyed that was found by Niagara County Cause and Origin investigators on scene investigating a March 12 fire.
•5000 block of Tindal Lane, disorderly conduct. Caller reported a fight between two males outside. Patrol met by resident who said his girlfriend's father came to their home, was highly intoxicated, and when asked to leave, punched him in the face. No charges requested.
•3000 block of Lincoln Street, EMS. Patrol assisted Rural Metro Ambulance and Niagara Active Hose Volunteer Fire Department with a call on an 18-month-old child having difficulty breathing.
Thursday, March 14
•2300 block of Military Road, EMS. Patrol asked to assist Rural Metro Ambulance and Niagara Active Hose with a 24-year-old man who fell in the business parking lot. The man was transported to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center.
•Lockport Road, road blocked. Reported "war" protesters blocking the road in front of the Air Base. Handled by patrols without incident.
•4000 block of Fox Avenue, noise complaint. Complainant reported a neighbor was playing music so loud that it was shaking her home.
Friday, March 15
•6000 block of Porter Road, EMS. Patrol assisted Rural Metro Ambulance and Niagara Active Hose with a 90-year-old female who fainted at the registers at a business. Woman declined to go to the hospital.
•1900 block of Military Road, domestic. An 18-year-old Devlin Avenue man was arrested for two counts of criminal mischief fourth-degree, and second-degree harassment after his girlfriend said he struck her in the back of the head, knocking off and breaking her prescription glasses and smashed her smart phone following an argument.
Saturday, March 16
•1900 block of Military Road, suspicious person. Complainant reported a male wearing a black hooded jacket was walking through the mall parking lot checking vehicle handles.
•6800 block of Joann Circle North, EMS. Child hit her head on a brick fireplace in the living room. Parents transported her to Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health Center.
•400 block of Main Street, Cayuga Village, aid assist. Patrol assisted Niagara County Sheriff's Office officer who had driven a female home from a traffic stop and she became disorderly. Subject was highly intoxicated and belligerent. A taxi was called to the scene and the woman was taken to another location after her mother said she was no longer welcome due to her intoxicated condition and temper.
Sunday, March 17
•7200 block of Packard Road, suspicious person. Patrol observed a suspicious male knocking on a door at this location. The male said he was cold and looking for a ride home. He was given a courtesy transport to Kline Road.
•5700 block of Lewiston Road, aid assist. Patrol assisted Lewiston Police with a trespassing male who was acting disorderly.
•3200 block of Bellreng Drive, check situation. Patrol responded for a possible burglary in progress after a caller stated there was a man outside trying to climb up the exterior of the building. Nothing found.
Monday, March 18
•2100 block of Roberts Drive, suspicious activity. Patrol checked a report of a suspicious person living in a tent in the woods and found four juveniles who had made a fort.
•700 block of A Street, assault, possible burglary. A Niagara Street man said he was visiting his mother when he noticed a man walking toward a neighbor's residence. He followed the man to the neighbor's patio door. During a confrontation, he said the suspect shot him with pellet gun and cut his hand with a knife. Patrols set up a perimeter and a Sheriff's Office K-9 was brought in, but nothing was found. The owner of the residence arrived and said there was prior damage to his patio door from previous burglaries.
•8400 block of Carol Court, juvenile problem. Father reported his teenage son was acting out of control, throwing property around the house. Patrols spoke with the son.


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As in the original Tropico, the player will again be able to play the role of "El Presidente" taking over the control of a tropical island. You decide whether you want to use your army to secure your power base in the best traditions of corrupt, unscrupulous tyrants everywhere, or alternatively to lead your people to prosperity in your role as generous elder statesman.
Danger lurks on every corner. There are militant rebels planning a Coup d'État for a communistic Junta, while in the background there are two lurking superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, who would perhaps prefer a more pliable president in the strategically important island of Tropico!
One of the most prominent features of the sequel is your own, freely customizable avatar. This time, you will be able to slip into the clothes of El Presidente, wander about Tropico Island and directly influence your people.
Tropico 3 on the Xbox 360 will be an almost identical port of the PC version except for some of the interface elements which will be specially adapted for the console.
Avatar Features:
- The avatar is a special customizable unit that the player creates and controls.
- Avatars can be male or female
- The player is able to customize the avatar's face, hairstyle, facial hair, hat, clothing, and additional accessories.
- The avatar travels across the island on foot or with his limo.
- The avatar is able to speed up constructions, inspect buildings, address the people from the balcony of his palace, calm down a protest, or go on a diplomatic mission abroad.
- The avatar may also engage in combat and personally shoot down rebels. If he is unlucky enough to be wounded, he can retreat to his palace to recuperate.
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The game will attract the fans of the Tropico series, as well as newcomers with state-of-the-art graphics, complex gameplay similar to the other titles in the series and a comprehensive multiplayer mode.
Kalypso's Tropico 3, developed on Xbox 360 and PC by Haemimont Games, is scheduled for release Sept. 2009 (PC) with the X360 to follow shortly.
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The tortuous negotiations involved in the "fiscal cliff" talks are like a chess game.
To shed some light on the kinds of negotiation techniques that members of Congress might be using during the talks, we asked two negotiators to walk us through their tactics with examples from their everyday lives.
Adam Galinsky teaches negotiation at Columbia University's business school. He was recently at an airport in North Carolina, waiting to fly home. The flight was woefully overbooked, and the gate was crowded.
Then a crackling voice announced over the PA system: "We're looking for volunteers to fly tomorrow instead of today. And we're offering a voucher."
To Galinsky, this was a negotiation with two players: the airline, which needed seats; and the passengers, who had seats. What would it take for the airline to convince passengers to give up those seats?
First, the airline offered $300. That wasn't enough for Galinsky. They raised the voucher value to $500, then $700, and eventually to $1,000. Galinsky took the $1,000 voucher — but he thought there was room for more negotiation.
So he asked the airline: "If I get bumped off this flight, will you put me in first class tomorrow?" The airline agreed. Then he asked for a hotel room for the night. He got it. He continued: a food voucher to cover his dinner. He got it. He even convinced the airline to provide him a car service for his ride home.
This technique is called "the nibble," and politicians know it well. Any agreement on the fiscal cliff is bound to include little extra provisions that get added in at the last minute.
The nibble is the easy part. What does it take to get to the core agreement? Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss shares a story about a recent experience at a car dealership.
Voss says he "fell in love" with a certain SUV. He knew getting the price he wanted would take a lot of negotiation, so he had a strategy in mind. First, he carefully chose his opening offer.
"If you're going to play the bargaining game, you just need to make the other side mad," Voss said. "You want them to get a little annoyed. Then you know that you've come in with a good price."
Voss offered significantly below the sticker price. The salesman came back with a counteroffer.
Typically this process would continue back and forth until the price landed somewhere in the middle, but Voss had another trick up his sleeve.
He used a technique called "disarming empathy." He praised the truck, and said the price the salesman offered was phenomenal. But he also said he couldn't afford to pay that price.
The salesman went to talk to his boss and came back with a price closer to what Voss had offered. Voss turned it down. The salesman went back and forth four times, each time offering Voss a lower price. Voss refused to take the deal — until the salesman finally agreed to his price — the price he said was the most he could afford.
Negotiating with someone like Voss isn't that far off from the negotiations taking place in Congress right now. You've got seasoned, patient negotiators trying to get the best deal. The difference: There aren't two people at the table, there are 535.
The surprising thing about the fiscal cliff situation is not that it's taking so long for them to reach a deal — it's that a deal is even possible.
At the end of the day, the fiscal cliff negotiations are just that - negotiations. They come down to people in a room, who want different things; trying to reach an agreement. It's something of an art form. And to help us understand it, David Kestenbaum, of NPR's Planet Money team, asked two specialists about their everyday negotiations.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: Adam Galinsky was at an airport in North Carolina. He's waiting to fly home; it's crowded. And he hears this announcement over the PA system: We're looking for volunteers who can fly tomorrow instead of today, and we're offering a voucher.
ADAM GALINSKY: It was way overbooked. And so they started out at about $300.
KESTENBAUM: Three hundred dollars was not enough for Adam. He teaches negotiations at Columbia University. And if you think about it, this is a negotiation. The amount keeps going up - $500, then $700.
GALINSKY: Eventually, they're offering a thousand-dollar voucher...
GALINSKY: ...for a flight that I paid $180 for.
KESTENBAUM: Now, the price is right. And for most rookie negotiators, this would be the end. But for Adam, things are just getting started. So he goes up to the desk and makes a counteroffer.
GALINSKY: I said, if I get bumped off this flight, will you put me in first class tomorrow? Yeah, we can do that.
KESTENBAUM: Then he says something else.
GALINSKY: I need to stay somewhere tonight, since this is tomorrow. Will you put me in a hotel? They said, yeah, we can do that.
KESTENBAUM: Thousand-dollar voucher, first-class seat, hotel.
GALINSKY: A boy's got to eat, so will you pay for my dinner tonight? And they said, yeah, we can do that. And I said, now, someone was supposed to pick me up, in a car, tonight. Can you get a car service to take me home tomorrow? And they said, yes, we can do that.
KESTENBAUM: This is the nibble - that's the technical term. You reach a general agreement - $1,000 is good for me - and then you say oh, one more thing; one more thing. Politicians know about the nibble. It's one reason any agreement on the fiscal cliff is likely to have all sorts of little provisions that got added in, at the last minute. The nibble, though, that's the easy part. Coming to that core agreement, that is where the advanced tactics come in; which brings us to this other story about a hostage negotiator buying a car - not just any car.
CHRIS VOSS: There was an SUV that I fell in love with. It was this gorgeous color.
KESTENBAUM: What color was it?
VOSS: The manufacturer calls it salsa red pearl - sort of this sexy burgundy; great, deep burgundy color.
KESTENBAUM: Chris Voss was a hostage negotiator with the FBI. Now, he teaches at Georgetown. Chris went into a car dealership, and he made the salesman an offer. Everyone knows you want to start low, but he says there's an art to deciding how low.
VOSS: If you're going to play the bargaining game, your first offer really needs to just start to make the other side mad. They - you want them to get a little annoyed; and then you know you've come in with a good price.
KESTENBAUM: Chris says his number, which is significantly below the sticker price.
VOSS: I threw out the price, and the guy looked at me really, really hard; and he got up, and walked away from the table.
KESTENBAUM: But the guy comes back with a counteroffer. Normally, you end up meeting at a price somewhere in the middle. But Chris does not want to do that. So he needs to neutralize the other guy's argument - which is, hey, we came down from the sticker price. Chris uses a technique called disarming empathy - stay firm, but be nice.
VOSS: So I said, you know, I'm really sorry. That's a phenomenal price. The truck is worth more than that. It's a gorgeous truck; it's beautiful. But I just can't pay your price.
VOSS: And that leaves them nowhere to go.
KESTENBAUM: Is this all stuff that's straight out of the FBI hostage negotiation handbook?
VOSS: It's kidnap bargaining - I wouldn't say 101, but it's kind of master's level kidnap bargaining.
KESTENBAUM: The car sales guy says, let me talk to my boss. And he comes back with an offer that's closer to Chris's asking price.
VOSS: And this time, he had smiley faces written all over the offer sheet; and "you win" underlined three, four times. If he'd had balloons, he'd have brought balloons out to me, I think. And I said, I just - I'm sorry, I can't do it. I just - I can't do it.
KESTENBAUM: Chris still does not change his offer.
VOSS: He got up and walked away from the table about four times; came back with a lower offer every time, till he came back with my price.
KESTENBAUM: He came back to the original price that you had asked for?
VOSS: Yeah. I beat him all the way down.
KESTENBAUM: Now, imagine if you had someone like Chris Voss, negotiating across the table from someone like Chris Voss; two seasoned, patient negotiators trying to get the best deal. That's the fiscal cliff situation - except that there aren't two people at the table. There are 535 members of Congress, and it's all happening in the public eye. When you think about the negotiations that way, the surprising thing is not that it's taking so long to reach a deal; it's that deals get made at all.
David Kestenbaum, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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I think the Nexus line is aimed as much at Europe as the US. The price there is fantastic, and LTE/CDMA a non-issue. In the US, I think this is mostly aimed at just growing the prepaid market and putting pressure on Verizon etc. to play nicer with the Nexus line going forward.
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I'm just pointing out that if the goal is 100 million sales, then the US market has to be hit a lot harder than the product currently is designed to do.


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Check out Cisco's ISE, it couples centralized MAB with posture which adds some real intelligence to it. If you MAB a printer and someone spoofs the mac, but doesn't act like a printer it can figure it out and updated access policy etc.
We had a presentation about this from Cisco a few weeks ago, and to be perfectly frank that behavior classification feature whiffs a little bit like snakeoil, and also like a recipe for headaches down the road because someone, somewhere built a printer that doesn't behave like the ISE thinks it should behave.


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This page documents all of the command-line options for the xtrabackup binary.
This option causes only the redo stage to be performed when preparing a backup. It is very important for incremental backups.
Make a backup and place it in --target-dir. See Creating a backup.
Do not keep files opened. When xtrabackup opens tablespace it normally doesn't close its file handle in order to handle the DDL operations correctly. However, if the number of tablespaces is really huge and can not fit into any limit, there is an option to close file handles once they are no longer accessed. Percona XtraBackup can produce inconsistent backups with this option enabled. Use at your own risk.
Create a compact backup by skipping secondary index pages.
This option tells xtrabackup to compress all output data, including the transaction log file and meta data files, using the specified compression algorithm. The only currently supported algorithm is 'quicklz'. The resulting files have the qpress archive format, i.e. every *.qp file produced by xtrabackup is essentially a one-file qpress archive and can be extracted and uncompressed by the qpress file archiver.
Size of working buffer(s) for compression threads in bytes. The default value is 64K.
This option specifies the number of worker threads used by xtrabackup for parallel data compression. This option defaults to 1. Parallel compression ('–compress-threads') can be used together with parallel file copying ('–parallel'). For example, '–parallel=4 –compress –compress-threads=2' will create 4 IO threads that will read the data and pipe it to 2 compression threads.
This option is not currently implemented. To create the InnoDB log files, you must prepare the backup twice at present.
The source directory for the backup. This should be the same as the datadir for your MySQL server, so it should be read from my.cnf if that exists; otherwise you must specify it on the command line.
Read this file after the global files are read. Must be given as the first option on the command-line.
Only read default options from the given file. Must be given as the first option on the command-line. Must be a real file; it cannot be a symbolic link.
This option is to set the group which should be read from the configuration file. This is used by innobackupex if you use the –defaults-group option. It is needed for mysqld_multi deployments.
Create files necessary for exporting tables. See Restoring Individual Tables.
(for –backup): save an extra copy of the xtrabackup_checkpoints file in this directory.
When creating an incremental backup, this is the directory containing the full backup that is the base dataset for the incremental backups.
When preparing an incremental backup, this is the directory where the incremental backup is combined with the full backup to make a new full backup.
When creating an incremental backup, force a full scan of the data pages in the instance being backuped even if the complete changed page bitmap data is available.
When creating an incremental backup, you can specify the log sequence number (LSN) instead of specifying --incremental-basedir. For databases created by MySQL and Percona Server 5.0-series versions, specify the LSN as two 32-bit integers in high:low format. For databases created in 5.1 and later, specify the LSN as a single 64-bit integer. ##ATTENTION##: If a wrong LSN value is specified (a user error which XtraBackup is unable to detect), the backup will be unusable. Be careful!
This option is used to specify the directory containing the archived logs. It can only be used with the xtrabackup --prepare option.
There is a large group of InnoDB options that are normally read from the my.cnf configuration file, so that xtrabackup boots up its embedded InnoDB in the same configuration as your current server. You normally do not need to specify these explicitly. These options have the same behavior that they have in InnoDB or XtraDB. They are as follows:
This option specifies time interval between checks done by log copying thread in milliseconds (default is 1 second).
Makes xtrabackup not copy data files, and output the contents of the InnoDB log files to STDOUT until the --suspend-at-end file is deleted. This option enables --suspend-at-end automatically.
Don't read default options from any option file. Must be given as the first option on the command-line.
This option specifies the list of databases and tables that should be backed up. The option accepts the list of the form "databasename1[.table_name1] databasename2[.table_name2] . . .".
This option specifies the path to the file containing the list of databases and tables that should be backed up. The file can contain the list elements of the form databasename1[.table_name1], one element per line.
This option specifies the number of threads to use to copy multiple data files concurrently when creating a backup. The default value is 1 (i.e., no concurrent transfer).
Makes xtrabackup perform recovery on a backup created with --backup, so that it is ready to use. See preparing a backup.
Print the program argument list and exit. Must be given as the first option on the command-line.
Makes xtrabackup print out parameters that can be used for copying the data files back to their original locations to restore them. See Scripting Backups With xtrabackup.
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A regular expression against which the full tablename, in databasename.tablename format, is matched. If the name matches, the table is backed up. See partial backups.
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In this episode we speak with Newton Howard, director of the Mind Machine Project and research scientist at MIT.
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Newton Howard is the director of the Mind Machine Project (MMP) started in 2009 to revisit fundamental assumptions about the nature of the brain, cognition, computing, and intelligence. The project focuses on four areas of expertise including Mind, Memory, Body, and Brain/Intent with world renowned experts from a wide range of fields joining forces to create Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Over the years, Newton has studied the "physics of cognition", the "theory of intention awareness" and Psychiatry at universities around the world including the University of Paris 1 - La Sorbonne, Oxford and George Washington University. He currently holds a position at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms where his research interests include wet computers, brain language and brain interfaces.


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It seems not a single crop meeting was held during the winter that didn't include at least some mention of the next farm bill. The most obvious observation being that an out-of-control federal deficit will make it difficult to maintain funding for agricultural programs at current levels.
Farmers are being encouraged by commodity group leaders to begin developing a clear explanation of why specific farm programs should be maintained, and why a national farm policy that stabilizes food and fiber production ultimately benefits everyone.
But for those among you who don't wish to wait before beginning your defense of farm spending, the Bush Administration's budget for fiscal year 2006 offers ample opportunity to get a head start. Some of those complaining about not enough specifics in the President's recent State of the Union speech are suddenly seeing too many specifics being addressed in his budget proposal.
The Bush budget seeks deep cuts in farm and commodity programs and proposes overall limits on subsidy payments to farmers. Such limits, say administration officials, would help reduce the federal budget deficit and would inject market forces into the farm economy.
The proposal puts Bush at odds with some of his most ardent supporters in the rural Southeast. A sign that the new budget will be especially tight is that the administration is willing to push the proposal despite the protests of the new chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), and more than 100 farm groups.
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, who is the newly installed chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and a strong Bush ally, says he expected the White House and congressional Republicans to target farm subsidies as they search for ways to trim federal spending and reduce the budget deficit.
Some reduction in the programs may be unavoidable, says Chambliss, but he has pledged to protect farm programs from deep cuts or outright elimination, as some Republican leaders have suggested. "They may look different the next time around, but I don't think we'll ever end them," he says.
How different is anyone's guess. Bush's budget proposal lowers the payment limit cap for individuals to $250,000 for commodity programs, including all types of marketing loan gains. The proposal comes as the administration is seeking significant changes in other programs long considered sacrosanct, with the proposed revamping of Social Security to allow personal investment accounts and a move to shake up the Civil Service system.
The budget also would cut federal payments to farmers by $587 million, or about 5 percent, next year and would save $5.7 billion in the coming decade.
In a letter to Mike Johanns, the new secretary of agriculture, a coalition of more than 100 farm groups say they will resist the budget cuts. "With prices for many major commodities falling sharply from last year, reductions to farm programs would come at precisely the time when these supports are most needed in rural America," says the coalition, which includes nutrition and conservation groups.
The White House proposal is somewhat of a vindication for Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who has advocated "reasonable payment limits" for three decades.
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In a report last year, the federal government's Accountability Office — an investigative arm of Congress, said farmers used many "schemes or devices" to circumvent existing payment limits. Under federal law, payments are supposed to go only to people who are "actively engaged in farming," but, the report stated, many people not involved in farm operations have received large subsidies.
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MerchManDan wrote:
I'll have to do some digging in the archives; can't recall when Dragon suffered that injury.
stuck his scythe
in Dragon.
Cripes, that was over a year ago. No wonder I'd forgotten it.
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almost a shame to waste dennis' talent on him.
except it's always a pleasure to see
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Another member ♥ Does she have a fan-name?
I wanna call her Mercy!
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I wanna call her Mercy!
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many people's wishes were granted
I kinda await the time when he will talk. Although I'm guessing it's not that simple with him bleeding for a year and all, but I somewhat forgot how cool a guy he was.
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I think Hydra is right in what Tat is trying to portray. That dragon is a Chinese dragon so the first thought should be about China.
And just to let you know, the ground pollution is so bad in China that the government has reclassified all studies on soil and water to classified to keep it out of the hands of the people.
That's how bad things are over there right now. Air Pollution is another huge thing, and that huge pipe pouring refuse into rivers, it actually happens in China. That exact scene could very well be lifted up from a photo, actually I see that here in Canada too now that I think about it. There's a chemical plant near my birthplace that just dumps all their waste into Lake Ontario through a pipe.
Of course this comic could be used to describe a great many different nations, but China would be my first guess as to what it's referring to due to the fact that the lake that's being contaminated is the home of the Chinese dragon.
Do I sense the start of a love story? ^_^ That would be so cool, there's like no romance in Sinfest, would be nice if there was something, even if it was between Dragon and Random Chick Number 5.
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I think I said I'd 'jump out the window of my two story apartment in a flying rage' if Tat ever told me "Stop Polluting" as it would "Ruin Sinfest forever". Then Leohan said "Tat did it before" or some such nonsense I don't know I was lost in a haze of hate so I'm not sure if I remember it too correctly. Anyway, looking out the window I realized how much I love my legs, and that the window was so perfect I couldn't really find the urge to burst through it. I'm not sure, I think my littering days are done, for now...
I'm pretty sure Jessica Christ was walking on the dragon just under the water, not the water.
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I want to ask if we have someone who writes in tv-tropes among us. Because I checked sinfest's page today and the Dragon's sub-page was updated and showed today's interaction of the sisterhood with him...which was rather quick, concerning the striphas only been up for one day, although to be fair, I'm not familiar with tv-tropes' usual speed.
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Beautiful. As usual. The contrast of green against red is particularly striking.
As to the content, I've never been very comfortable with Mr. Ishida's valorisation of the Asiatic dragon. Or the Buddha, for that matter. They are the wisest and least flawed of the supernatural cast, which seems unjust, as these are as man-made ideals as Jesus, the Devil, and God.
If the Dragon here represents the Chinese waterways (conflating a set of religious ideologies with nationalism!), how does that Sister heal that reptile? Surely, as an American citizen, she is powerless to do anything in China.
On the other hand, would be a flawed metaphor to have the Dragon represent American rivers, since culturally imprecise.
So, personally, I award this strip high marks for form and representation, but middling marks for meaning.
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asym wrote:
Looks kind of like the Jessica Christ puppet.
And walks on water.
You seem very correct to me!
Jessica Christ!
(I wonder if she still wants to kill all men...)
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First off let me say, WOOT Return of the Dragon!
Second this is about the third time we've seen Big Sis/Gaia/Mercy, whatever we end up calling her, she was one of the workers in the 'Friend Zone' Reconstruction Sunday Comic. She was also in the last panel/picture of Grandma's Day Sunday Comic giving Bunny Ears to Little Sister.
Third, I'm happy to see ANYBODY with an environmental protection agenda, it used to be 'Nique's thing or one of her major traits that has fallen by the wayside with the other things she's come to contend with. So Tat bequeathing the role to someone else was pretty awesome in my opinion, so the fact that he chose one of the Sisterhood or anybody for that matter is a petty thing to complain about in the face of the fact that it's nice to see him speaking out against it again. In short positive messages are good regardless of if you have issues with who is making them.
And finally, I don't know if this is meant to be a representation of China's pollution of it's rivers and country, as many have stated, Dragon was wounded by Death previously, so it may have nothing to do with the larger scheme of things. However if there is a message here, it's that the damage has been done, but if one stops to give a damn about it, you just might be able to help.
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asym wrote:
Looks kind of like the Jessica Christ puppet.
And walks on water.
Oh my God, she
walk on water. o_o I didn't notice that before.
Unless the dragon was just slightly under the top of the water. She might have been walking on him, I guess.
But walking on water is way cooler, and she looks
, so she is now Jessica to me.
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She's not walking on water
She's walking on what she think is shallow water and it turns out it was the body of the dragon.
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stripeypants wrote:
I think he got it in this comic, from the toxic waste. My interpretation is that nature has been hurt, which is being represented by Dragon.
Also, this is just cool!
death gave him the wound while chasing storytime... its been a while
Cool. Do you (Or does anyone) have a link?
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Reader1 wrote:
stripeypants wrote:
I think he got it in this comic, from the toxic waste. My interpretation is that nature has been hurt, which is being represented by Dragon.
Also, this is just cool!
death gave him the wound while chasing storytime... its been a while
Cool. Do you (Or does anyone) have a link?
Which reminds me, I wonder what Storytime has been up to.
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merest wrote:
They are the wisest and least flawed of the supernatural cast, which seems unjust, as these are as man-made ideals as Jesus, the Devil, and God.
Of course, not all of us believe that any/all of the above are man-made ideals, and I don't know whether Tat believes that way either.
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Not a lot I can add to this, which came across my email in the middle of a challenging, get-the-magazine-to-the-printer day and gave me just the smile I needed.
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From the moment we arrived we felt blessed to have won this awesome trip for our family. The resort was so kid-friendly and convinient with little ones that I have encouraged all of my friends to stay there! They treated us like royalty. I made sure to inform others of your magazine, along with sharing the article I wrote and the fact you chose us to win the trip.
As parents we were able to "spoil" the boys with a Legoland toy store shopping spree because we were not worried about the cost of the trip. What a blessing and such fun for them! My husband and I built in alone time for each child, which allowed him to rest with our little Luke (2 1/2) and get away from the crowds, while Aidan (4 1/2) and I rode all of the roller coasters we could get in!
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With many states convening their 2014 legislative sessions this month, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) turned to last year's key policy issues and trends as a barometer to anticipate what this year may hold.
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So I'm walking down the Greenway yesterday, walking past the crocuses blooming by Atlantic Wharf, the maintenance guys preparing the fountains, the office workers sitting at outdoor tables, and my stomach is in a knot. I hung a right on Hanover Street, where a nice woman planted outdoor flower boxes and one restaurant after another flung open their windows to the street.
The clouds gave way to sun. The temperatures nudged toward the 70s. And everyone was smiling, locals and tourists, young and old, the innately happy and the perpetually put-upon. The whole scene, this entire city, felt like an old Dr Pepper commercial, the joyful throngs about to break into rousing song and dance.
Which leads to the one simple question I now solemnly ask: Has everyone lost their minds? And another: Don't you understand that we are profoundly and inexorably screwed?
I get it, the mood, the joy, the very lightness of being. March feels like May, it has barely snowed all year, and the temperatures have set one benevolent record after another. So you're all chuckling to yourselves, thinking we've done something you didn't think possible: We cheated Old Man Winter.
You even have your cute little theory, that because last winter was so awful, this winter is our make-up call. Life always evens out, doesn't it?
Yeah, sure it does, in Virginia and North Carolina and Arizona. But allow me to offer the cold dose of reality that the weather has sinisterly withheld: This is New England, and things never even out in our favor.
Which is why I've been having these dreams lately that my new Ariens snow blower climbs the stairs in the middle of the night, wakes me up, and punches me in the face. Why, I ask it. No reason, it tells me. I just had all this pent-up energy.
Which is why I'm convinced beyond any hint of a doubt that we are about to experience weather of nearly biblical proportions: Locusts will fill the air. Frogs will fall from the sky. The seas will basically swallow us whole.
I'm sorry, but we don't get away with things in Boston. We don't slip by unnoticed. This is New England, where we bear the burdens of the world. Your friends down on Marco Island have sunburns in February. You're red in the face, too - from shoveling yet another blanket of wet snow. Washington has cherry blossoms in April; we have clouds, cold, and muck.
Yes, life evens out here. When things are bad, they don't always get worse, and for that, we are forever thankful. And when things are good, buckle up, because they always take a turn for the worse. That's how it has always been.
This is how the World Series victories of 2004 and 2007 led to the historic collapse of 2011. This is how three Super Bowl titles have morphed into a team that can't win the big game. This is how the ceiling collapses on the Big Dig, supposedly the engineering marvel of the world.
Which is why, when an entire winter is blissfully wiped off the ledger, we're going to have hell to pay - guaranteed. Think Governor Capuano. Think a hundred days of spring rain. Think a tornado-laced blizzard in the middle of July.
Yesterday, I called the region's best weather forecaster, Matt Noyes of New England Cable News, to soothe my fears.
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Why Not, Coach?: Written to Help and Greatly Benefit Others is a non-fiction sports book written by Gregory Ryan. The author was motivated to write this book based upon both his own experiences as a young athlete and his concerns for other athletes, who may feel as though their abilities are not being fully developed and utilized. Ryan played competitive sports from the time he was in primary school. He excelled at baseball, basketball and football; the latter being the sport in which he was most motivated to excel. As a freshman in a Catholic high school, Ryan was given plenty of opportunities to be part of each game and had hopes of advancing to varsity; however, when he transferred to the much larger public high school, he found that he was left on the bench for most games and was rarely given any playing time. Any attempts to find out from the coaches why he wasn't being used were met with silence until he finally quit the team in frustration. Ryan believes that, while it's the coach's prerogative who he allows on the team, once he selects his players, the coach should ensure that each and every teammate gets ample field time as well as personalized training to ensure that the player's gifts and weaknesses are properly addressed. Ryan sees the support structure of a player to be a triangle with the player at the top and the coach and the player's parents as the base. This support structure is, he argues, the essential recipe for a successful player who is confident and enjoys himself in team sports.
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Scores of people who had been standing, waiting to disembark, were hurled to the deck or launched into walls by the impact, which came after the catamaran Seastreak Wall Street slowed following a routine trip across New York Bay and past the Statue of Liberty, passengers said.
"We were pulling into the dock. The boat hit the dock. We just tumbled on top of each other. I got thrown into everybody else. ... People were hysterical, crying," said Ellen Foran, of Neptune City, N.J.
The crash, which ripped open a small part of the hull like an aluminum can, happened at 8:45 a.m. at a pier near the South Street Seaport, at Manhattan's southern tip. Around 70 people suffered minor injuries, and for nearly two hours paramedics treated bruised and dazed passengers on the pier. Firefighters carried several patients on flat-board stretchers as a precaution. Other patients left in wheelchairs.
The cause of the crash was under investigation. The ferry, built in 2003, had recently undergone a major overhaul that gave it new engines and a new propulsion system, but officials said it was too soon to tell whether they played any role in what happened.
Dee Wertz, who was on shore waiting for the ferry, saw the impact. She said that just moments before the ferry hit, she had been having a conversation with a ferry employee about how the boat's captains had been complaining lately about its maneuverability.
"He was telling me that none of these guys like this boat," she said. "It was coming in a little wobbly. It hit the right side of the boat on the dock hard, like a bomb."
James Barker, the chairman of the ferry's owner, Seastreak LLC, said at a news conference hours after the crash it was "a terrible day for all of us."
"We are simply shocked and stunned that this happened," he said, adding that the company would work with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to determine what went wrong. "Our priority continues to be the people who are injured."
About 330 passengers and crew members were aboard the ferry, which had arrived from Atlantic Highlands, a part of the Jersey Shore still struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy. Passenger Frank McLaughlin, whose home was filled with 5 feet of water in the late October storm, said he was thrown forward and wrenched his knee.
"We come in and do this every day, and so it just kind of glides in," he said. "It came in hard, and it was just a huge impact as we hit."
Some passengers were bloodied when they banged into walls and toppled to the floor, he said.
New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, said the ferry was coming in at 10 to 12 knots, or about 12 to 14 mph, when it struck one slip and then hit a second.
After the impact, the boat was able to dock normally. Wertz, who saw the crash from the dock, said passengers raced off once the ramp was down.
"I think people just wanted to get the heck off the boat as soon as they could," she said.
Police said the boat's crew passed alcohol breath tests given after the crash. Crew members also took drug tests, the results of which weren't immediately available.
Officials identified the captain as Jason Reimer, an experienced seaman. In a 2004 profile in Newsday, Reimer said he had joined Seastreak as a deckhand in 1997 and became a captain three years later at age 23. Barker called him "a great guy."
The NTSB said it had yet to interview the captain.
The Seastreak Wall Street has been in minor accidents before. Coast Guard records said the ferry hit a cluster of fender piles while docking in 2010, punching a small hole in the ship's skin. In 2009, it suffered another tear on the bow after another minor docking collision. No one was injured in either of those mishaps.
The naval architecture firm that designed the reconfiguration, Incat Crowther, said in an August news release that the ferry's water-jet propulsion system had been replaced with a new system of propellers and rudders to save fuel costs and cut carbon dioxide pollution in half. Barker said the overhaul made it "the greenest ferry in America."
The hull was reworked, and the boat was made 15 metric tons lighter. At top speed, the ferry travels at around 35 knots, or 40 mph.
Seastreak spokesman Bob Dorn, asked whether the work had hurt the ferry's maneuverability or caused pilots any problems, said it would be up to the NTSB to determine if the new equipment played any role.
The ferry accident happened just a few hours before a 200-foot-tall crane collapsed onto a building under construction near the East River waterfront in Queens, injuring seven people.
Such ferry accidents happen every few years in New York. In 2003, 11 people were killed when a Staten Island Ferry crashed into a pier on Staten Island after its pilot passed out at the wheel. Three people were badly hurt and about 40 were injured when the same ferry hit the same pier in 2010 because of a mechanical problem.
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Grisanti urges the Assembly to approve bill named after Buffalo woman found dead inside garbage tote
New York State Sen. Mark Grisanti announced the New York State Senate voted to pass Bill S.1590, which makes it a crime to conceal a death by knowingly moving or otherwise hiding a human corpse so that discovery of the death will be hindered.
The bill, also referred to as "Amanda Lynn's Law," would make the commission of this crime a D felony, up from a misdemeanor for the improper disposal of a dead body.
Grisanti sponsors the bill. Amanda Lynn's Law has passed the Senate the past two years. It will now be sent to the Assembly.
"I am pleased that the Senate has voted to pass this law in honor of Amanda Lynn," Grisanti said. "The current law on the books is totally inadequate for the seriousness of the crime of improperly disposing of a human being. With the passing of Amanda Lynn's Law, anyone who attempts to move or conceal a body in the attempt to hinder its discovery will find the full weight of the legal system thrown at them."
In January 2009, Amanda Wienckowski's naked body was found stuffed inside a garbage tote. The exact cause of her death has been disputed ever since, and one key issue in the investigation has been where her body was found. It is believed that her corpse was moved from the original crime scene.
Grisanti strongly urged his colleagues in the Assembly to follow the Senate's lead and approve the bill.
"This vote is my latest attempt to get this bill introduced to the Assembly and hopefully become a law," he said. "As an attorney, I took particular interest in this legislation. We know that poor Amanda did not land in that Dumpster by herself. Somebody put her there. When somebody does something so horrendous like that, they need to be held accountable. They are tampering with evidence and tampering with the potential of a crime scene. The time has come to act on this."
The proposed law will now go to the New York State Assembly for consideration. If approved by the Assembly, the bill would advance to be signed by the governor so that the law would go into effect later this year.
Grisanti currently represents the 60th Senate District, which includes parts of the City of Buffalo, the northtowns and the southtowns. He is chairman of the environmental conservation committee and currently sits on the finance, cities, cultural affairs, tourism, parks and recreation, higher education, infrastructure and capital investment, insurance, labor and veterans, homeland security and military affairs committees in the Senate.